The main objective of this study is to compare the diagnostic performance of two diagnostic methods, namely CESM and MRI, in the evaluation of a lesion suspicious of breast cancer in 300 Quebec women referred for the investigation of breast cancer. breast lesion suspected of cancer. All suspicious lesions will be evaluated by these two diagnostic imaging and by TNM. Then, radiologists will respectively interpret diagnostic imaging, without knowing the result of the other imaging in parallel with the study. The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value for his diagnostic imaging will then be determined. Histopathological confirmation by biopsy or surgery will be used as a standard value.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
231
St-Sacrement Hospital
Québec, Quebec, Canada
Diagnostic value for breast cancer
To measure sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value for CESM and MRI using histopathological confirmation as a standard value.
Time frame: Breast cancer screening
Diagnostic value for suspicious breast lesion
To determine the ability of diagnostic imaging to identify other breast masses suspicious of cancer.
Time frame: Breast cancer screening
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